{"id":9720,"date":"2021-04-26T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:02","slug":"the-best-and-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9720","title":{"rendered":"THE BEST AND THE WORST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I mentioned a couple of pastors I had worked for in the past who (sadly) acted in rather despicable ways.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately, I was also blessed to work with some downright incredible pastors. These were godly men and women who taught me so much.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From early in my youth ministry career I noticed a peculiar thing:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the very worst pastor has at least a small group of followers who think he is absolutely wonderful, and he can count on their undying support.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the very best pastor has at least a small group of critics who think he is absolutely horrible, and he can count on their never-ending opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I left youth ministry, I realized that what is true for pastors holds true for leaders in general in both secular and faith-based settings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned a couple of pastors I had worked for in the past who (sadly) acted in rather despicable ways. Fortunately, I was also blessed to work with some downright incredible pastors. These were godly men and women who taught me so much.\u00a0 From early in my youth ministry career I noticed a peculiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}